The Miller Center is a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia that specializes in presidential scholarship, public policy and political history and strives to apply the lessons of history to the nation’s most pressing contemporary governance challenges. more →

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Philip D. Zelikow recently returned to teaching in the University's Corcoran Department of History after serving as Counselor to the U.S. Department of State from 2005 to 2007. He was director of the 9/11 Commission and principal author of its widely acclaimed report, and served as director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs from 1998 to 2005. Zelikow served on President George H.W. Bush's National Security Council staff with Condoleezza Rice, with whom he wrote Germany Unified and Europe Transformed (1995). He earned a law degree at the University of Houston Law Center, where he was editor of the law review, and a Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.